User:Cadillard1/Toledan Tables

Lead Section Material Addition: The Toledan Tables are a collection of mathematic tables that describe different aspects of planetary motion to predict calendar dates, times of cosmic events, and cosmic motion. This collection of tables was influenced heavily by the work of ealier astronomers and tables such as that of Ptolematic tables and the work of al-Battānī.

Analysis of Tables Addition:

Analysis of the tables reveals that some of the information was miscalculated or mistranslated from the tables the creators used for reference, which is seen by repeated errors of the same nature being traced throughout the Toledan Tables.

Influence of Tables Addition:

The Toledan Tables were influential for future astronomical tables that went on to prove useful for astronomers and mathematicians. One notable astronomer, Joseph Israeli, seemed to be influenced by the Toledan Tables as multiple calendar dates and calculation tables align with Israeli's work. Although Israeli's work was done in Hebrew many years after the Toledan Tables creation, some of the calculations and tables were still congruent with one another.

Contents of the Tables:

The Toledan Tables were organized into categories such as :


 * Chronology of eras
 * Trigonometry and Spherical Astronomy
 * Mean motions of the sun, moon, and planets
 * Planetary latitudes
 * Eclipses
 * Astrology

Sources for reference:

1. Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia

By Thomas F. Glick, Steven John Livesey, Faith Wallis

2. José Chabás. Computational Astronomy in the Middle Ages: Sets of Astronomical Tables in Latin.

Original Article notes: Needs help with organization of page, could use headers.

Personal notes: Need to look at other users sandboxes for same article

Review by K8shep
Your sources are solid. Anything by Glick, Livesey and/or Wallis is top notch. Those, including Chabás of course, are going to be your main scholars. Excellent. All of your addition notes are good. What are the other people doing who are working on this? Make sure you're looking at their stuff and of course talking to them. Work together!!

Your article notes--what you noticed with the original article and your own personal notes are where you should be and what you should be doing. Now you just have to do it. If I can help you, let me know.